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Date:	Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:21:18 +0300 (IDT)
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Subject:	Re: Building Grep 2.5.1
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Andrew Cottrell wrote:

> The problems I found in the original code were:-
>     a) Had to add target and host types to the configure line:-
> 
> ./configure --src=%XSRC% --disable-nls --target=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp --host=i5
> 86-pc-msdosdjgpp
>     b) On most occasions had to run the config.bat twice as it run out of
> environmrnt space and I couldn't see where

I believe these problems don't exist with the configuration files I 
used.  Would you like me to send them to you, so you could try to build 
Grep 2.5.1 with them?

> It was my understanding that when Grep was originally ported there was no
> Autoconf and Automake, but there is now and this is what the standrd GNU
> build uses so we don't we use the same method. If people are going to
> rebuild the tools then it is not unreasonable IMHO that they have these two
> packages.

It's not unreasonable, but if we could avoid requesting them, it's IMHO 
better.

> This would hopefully also eliminate (my be a dream) the problems
> where the config.bat and other files need to be modified whenever a breakage
> occurs as the majority of the GNU packjages are built with Autconf and
> Automake.

I don't think this eliminates the problem, just moves it elsewhere: 
instead of tracking changes in config.bat and config.sed, we have to 
track them in the ports of Autoconf and Automake.  I'm not sure what's 
better; it certainly takes less effort to modify 2 short files, at least 
for me.

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